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FBI: Fugitive Extradited From Hungary To Appear In Federal Court In Albuquerque To Face Fraud Charges

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FBI News:

ALBUQUERQUE – Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced today that Uchenna Christian Nlemchi made his initial appearance June 7 in federal court in Albuquerque after being extradited from Hungary on an indictment charging him with conspiracy, 13 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, aggravated identify theft, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

Nlemchi, 31, a Nigerian national, will remain in custody pending trial, which has not Read More

LANL: Tongan Volcano Plume Produced Most Intense Lightning Rates Ever Detected

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Powerful volcanic eruptions produce ash plumes that can create their own weather systems, providing the conditions for lightning at higher altitudes than normally seen. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

New research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters showed that the plume emitted by the Hunga Volcano eruption in 2022 created the highest lightning flash rates ever recorded on Earth, more than any storm ever documented.

“The eruption of Hunga Volcano was the largest volcanic explosion since Krakatau in 1883,” Sonja Behnke saod, of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Electromagnetic Read More

U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury Highlights Importance Of New Mexicans To Indo-Pacific Task Force

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U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury

STATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01), spoke of the many New Mexicans in her district that play vital roles in keeping the peace in the South Pacific, and emphasized what Congress can do to support United States’ military presence in that area as well as the Freely Associated States in a House Committee and Natural Resources Committee Hearing. 

“Some may be asking why two members from New Mexico are interested in the South Pacific and the compacts of Free Association,” Rep. Stansbury said. “That is, in part because many Read More

Aspen Elementary School OMERs Compete At World Finals

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Aspen Elementary OMERs at World Finals. Courtesy/LAPS

LAPS News:

The Aspen Elementary School Odyssey of the Mind (OMERs) Division 2 team recently competed at the World Finals at Michigan State University. This is the first time the team has participated at this level of competition.

Team members Jocelyne Dolejsi, Kaya Wilson, Kai Bain-Zink, Evan Kolman, Zack Ramirez and Alea Kretz tied for 22nd out of over 60 teams. The team qualified for the World Finals by placing first in their division at the Colorado State Tournament held in April.

The team is coached by Aspen Elementary teachers (and husband Read More

Global Santa Fe Hosts ‘Nothing To See Here, Folks: U.S.-China Relations With David Firestein’ Thursday June 29

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Global Santa Fe New:

Global Santa Fe hosts “Nothing to See Here, Folks: U.S.-China Relations with David Firestein”, president and CEO of the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.–China Relations.

The talk is 5:30 p.m. Thursday, June 29 at Hotel Santa Fe.

The cost is $25 for members and $35 for non-members.

Pre-registration is required at www.globalsantafe.org. Read More

NOAA Declares Arrival Of El Nino

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Animation of sea surface temperatures for past 6 months. Courtesy/NOAA

NOAA News:

The expected El Nino has emerged, according to scientists at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Weather Service.

In the monthly outlook released recently, forecasters issued an El Nino Advisory, noting that El Nino conditions are present and are expected to gradually strengthen into the winter.

El Nino is a natural climate phenomenon marked by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern Pacific Ocean near the equator, which occurs on average every 2-7 Read More

NMDVS Honors Today’s 79th Anniversary Of ‘D-Day’

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NMDVS News:

Seventy-nine years ago on this date during World War II—June 6, 1944—American, British and Canadian military forces combined to launch the largest amphibious invasion force ever assembled in world history.

The New Mexico Department of Veterans’ Services (NMDVS) explains that Operation Overlord was the official codename for this Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Germany in Normandy, a region in the northwest corner of France about 185 miles across the English Channel from England. But the world has come to know this date as D-Day, the day the Allied forces took the battle directly Read More

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón’s New Poem To Fly Into Space Aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper Set To Launch In October 2024

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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón

LIBRARY CONGRESS News:

U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is revealing a new poem that will fly into space aboard NASA’s Europa Clipper mission on a year’s long journey to explore Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.

The poem, first shared publicly during a special reading at the Library of Congress, will be engraved on the spacecraft set to launch in October 2024.

Now members of the public are invited to add their names to fly with the poem — like a message in a bottle from Earth — traveling billions of miles as the mission investigates whether the ocean thought to lie beneath Europa’s Read More

Los Alamos Historical Society Exclusive Event ‘Oppenheimer Conversations’ Featuring Kai Bird June 20

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Tim Rieser, right, with U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy. Courtesy/Rieser by The World and Viet Nam Report

Author Kai Bird

LAHS News:

Los Alamos Historical Society will sponsor an exclusive event, “Oppenheimer Conversations” featuring Kai Bird, author of American Prometheus, the book on which the upcoming “Oppenheimer” movie is based.

Special guest at the talk, to be moderated by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) National Security Research Center Director Brye Steeves, is Tim Rieser, U.S. Senate staffer who was instrumental in the recent vacating of the revocation of J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Read More